Dream 009 - a truck, a gas station, birds

I wish I had time to write this down this morning, but I was running late. Some parts have faded from memory a bit, but let’s give it a try.

*start of dream*

It was dark outside and I was driving a big old truck. I was approaching a stop light and I was having trouble with the brakes. I wasn’t slowing down very well. I ended up rolling into the intersection, but thankfully nothing hit me. I managed to make a right hand turn and started to go down the road, which was also a gradual downhill slope.

As I was going down the hill, I noticed that my sister was sitting in the passenger seat next to me. I tried the brakes and again they were not working. My sister starts giving me heck for driving an unsafe vehicle, but luckily there’s a gas station at the bottom of the hill. We come to a bumpy stop (after jumping the curb) in the parking lot of the gas station.

We head inside to get some help. I realize that this gas station is owned by a former co-worker at an old job of mine (this guy actually does own a store in real life, but not a gas station). He tells me and my sister that he’ll have his guys look at the truck, but in the meantime, we could go sit in his truck because the store was really too small for us to wait.

We go to sit in his truck, only it’s more like a space shuttle with lots of crazy displays and chairs that swivel. This truck completely rocks! And apparently it has a mind of its own because it starts to back up very slowly.

My sister and I freak out as we try the controls. Eventually my sister figures it out and we manage to drive the truck back to our starting point. We both decide it’s best to wait outside, so we get out of the truck. We then realize that we’re also next to a lake. A pelican walks by with a duck in his beak. The pelican was holding on to the duck by his butt. The duck wasn’t struggling, but had more of an expression of annoyance.

My sister didn’t like the bullying that the pelican was doing to the duck, so she grabbed a big stick and started banging it around on the ground to try and scare the pelican so he’d drop the duck. The pelican did just that. And then the pelican picked up the stick and started waving it around at my sister. It was extremely funny until he clobbered her over the head. She was more insulted than hurt.

*end of dream*